jujuseah RN

In Singapore, there is a certain hospital that doesn't hire obese nurses. If your BMI is above like 25 or smth, you will not be hired.

I think the best is to be useful.

what? IM everyday? Tell your MD to stop torturing that poor patient.

Ask the doctor to write down in his notes when to restart vanco. Usually they will check vanco trough again before starting. It is important to ask him to restart when and check if bloods are needed! It is annoying because usually we do vanco trough ...

Yeah kinda so we have to pick it up. But learn to say no, that's the point if you don't want to work!

Hate calls like this. But unfortunately we have to pick it up in Singapore if not verbal warnings will be given. We have a call-tree exercise incase of national crisis we have to be activated immediately so any call from the hospital could be the exe...

Or.. kink it and tape it with micropore. works like magic too :)

Our official discharge timing is about 1-2pm. I try to get them out before 1pm so that I don't have to pass over. But sometimes the house officers are seriously slow in discharging pts and causing the ED to be flooded with patients who are waiting fo...

I had dreams about patients saying good bye to me in them and the next day when I returned, they were gone.

you can try googling guide to a newly graduated nurse

This is so true. Even for me a local Singaporean nurse, I can prove her words. It is really sweat and hard work for peanuts. Maybe to some Pinoys the money is good but the living standard is way too high. It is MF tough working in Singapore unless yo...

Yes there is a chance but a slim chance because you have to work for at least 3-5 years before they want to CONSIDER to send you for RN classes as they need more ENs right now.

Some joker put it in right?

Spike it! Free flow!

Just as long your foam, field and techniques are sterile, put in and taking out the black foam is fine. Like what Shermbrn suggested, to draw the template out with the plastic cover after dropping your black foam on your sterile dressing pack. It is ...

We call it VAC dressing in Singapore.

There are silicon foley catheters right? They last longer.

I had a pt who had Fornier's gangrene. It was really bad. But it wasn't a hospice pt. The wound was very wet, smelly and caused alot of pain to the pain and the gentleman needed to be bed bound because of the pain. What I remembered doing was using...

It is reasonable to wear a mask and fix that smell, that's important. If you can, do some debridement, irrigate with Normal saline (unless dr wants a PP wash or chlorohexidine), the smell should be lesser. But I try not to wear a mask because it mig...

You are supposed to do it by gravity and never push it unless it is stuck. You have to crush your pills till powder fine (yes it takes time and effort but for a good wash down it is worth it) and stir it with hot(not hot hot but hot enough) water. C...

A SRN caring for 200 patients serving medications and she had a medication error and she was up in trial but was acquited with a verbal warning. THEY HAD TO LET HER OFF caring for 200 patients THATS CRAZY! My eyes would have been crossed not mentioni...

find the right spot to the pressure on. (dont mean to sound dirty here )

In these situations, our roles and responsibilities are very very debatable. In Singapore, our drs have handphones instead of pagers. When the pt is in hypoglycemic state, we will call and inform them and ask to give verbal order if he/she cannot be ...

Some hugs to you but if you had my boss, i quote her, "dont bring your problems to work". Take a day off!

always have a friend on every floor..